Improvement in tobacco-hangers



E. KEM PSHALL.

Tqbacco Hangers.

Patented June 10. 1873.

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ELEAZER KEMPSHALL, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT m TOBACCO-HANGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,718, dated June 10,1813; application filed March 24, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELEAZER KEMPSHALL', of New Britain, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Tobacco- Hangers, of which the following is aspecification:

In my improved tobacco-hanger a strip or lath is provided with a seriesof clasps, each clasp having two arms, which pass each side of thetobacco-stalk and hold it, the said clasp being providedwith a tang orstaple, by which to secure it to the lath or strip, as hereafterdescribed.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a partial plan or top view of atobacco-hanger which embodies my invention, and Fig. 2 is 'a sideelevation of a clasp and staple.

A designates one of the clasps, which I prefer to form of sheet steel,with two arms,'a a, the ends of which are curved outward, as shown. Bdesignates a staple or tang, the head of which is as wide as the widthof the metal forming the clasp A. The staple B is driven into the stripor lath O, and the clasp A is placed under the head of said staple, sothat when it is driven further into the lath the clasp A is firmly heldbetween the head of the staple and one side of the lath G, as indicatedin Fig. l. The end or ends of the staple B, which project through thelath (J, are

then clinched to permanently'hold the clasp.

A number of these hangers, consisting of l the clasp and its tang orstaple, can be place upon a single strip. p

In use, the tobacco-stalks are slipped between the arms a, a, and ifthere are oneor two leaves, as is generally the case, on the stalk,between its end and the point embraced by the arms, said leaves willprevent the stalk from slipping out of the arms, whether they springtightly against the stalk or not. For

this reason the arms a a may be made of rigid metal, or with little orno spring; and in such case the staple B might be cast in one and theELEAZER KEMPSHALL.

Witnesses:

JAMES SHEPARD, F. H. CHURCHILL. y f

